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Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

Bertolt Brecht

If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
He who is still laughing is he who hasn’t heard the terrible news.
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Laughing News Terrible
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
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Block Book Kings
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
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Fearful Goodness Seductive
For the task assigned them Men aren’t smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.
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Clever Lying Smart
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot get along as an artist without the use of one or two sciences. …
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Art Science Views Work
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.
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Peace Storm War Wind
When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Fall Rain Summer
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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Banking Breaking Literature Silence
Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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Audience Discovery Experience Joy Pleasure Schooled
What they could do with ’round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
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Peace Running War
One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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People Today World
Terrible is the temptation to be good.
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Be Good Temptation Terrible

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